It’s another new month, and another new Community Game-Along theme! This month, we’re celebrating all kinds of visual novels. Join in the event by playing a visual novel and sharing your impressions using #VNNovember on social media!
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Happy overdue Halloween! Our Halloween episode is a couple of days late because Anne was too busy traveling for work to remember to upload the podcast, but who says we can’t have the spooks all year long?! Marcus is back from Japan and shares what it’s like almost be evacuated due to a typhoon, Anne talks about traveling for the Japanese Film Festival, and both still manage to find time to watch and play new things!
42:00 – Media Minutes: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Code Vein, Promare, The Taking of Deborah Logan, The Clovehitch Killer
58:30 – Notable News: Analogue Pocket announcement, Maggot Baits released, Stadia, A3! English release
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta
This episode of Pixel x Pixel is off the charts! Marcus if off to Japan this week, so we have an extra-long episode to tide you over in case our next episode is delayed. Marcus receives a special package in the mail, Anne possibly traumatizes herself with a Junji Ito manga, and both extol the virtues of GiantBomb’s Burgle My Bananas feature. All that and more in episode 26 of Pixel x Pixel – now celebrating 1 year of podcasting! Thank you for listening!
25:00 – Media Minutes: Little Darlings, The Poseidon Adventure, Blood Feast/Herschell Gordon Lewis, Google Play Pass, Burgle My Bananas, The Exorcist, Fragments of Horror, Untitled Goose Game, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
59:30 – Notable News: 24 hour Pokemon Sword/Shield stream, new Hypnosis Microphone groups, Brain Age for Switch, Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC, Monster Hunter World: Iceborn Resident Evil collab
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta
It’s that spooky time of year once again! If you’re looking to get in the Halloween spirit, October’s Community Game-Along theme will do the trick. This month, we’re celebrating all things that go bump in the night – namely, horror games!
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There’s so much to discuss this episode that we couldn’t fit it all in! Marcus is busy making his very own visual novel database and Anne is busy programming a film festival, but both still find plenty of time to read, watch, and play! We talk about all the exciting Deadly Premonition news and more in the latest Nintendo Direct, Marcus Gets Steamed once again, and Anne gets her hot little hands on a Nintendo Switch Lite!
15:00 – Media Minutes: Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered, Decoder, euphoria, Deadly Premonition, Weathering with You, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
35:00 – Notable News: Experts agree: Valve afraid of schoolgirl uniforms, I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator, September Nintendo Direct, Apple Arcade
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta
Once in a while, your co-hosts play the same game and have things to say about it – thus warranting an extra special episode! For our second special, we talk about developer Nitro+’s Saya no Uta, aka Song of Saya, thanks to the recent re-release. If you’re interested in the game and don’t want to get spoiled, rest assured, you can listen to the intro to hear our general opinions before the spoiler section. After that, we take a deep dive into the various endings, themes, and comparisons with Nitro+ Chiral’s sweet pool.
Content warning for rape, gore, cannibalism, suicide, torture
Spoilers start from 16:30
Hello beloved listeners! Since our last episode, Marcus has played not one, but two FMV games released in the last month, and Anne moved all her things down to Sydney and finally has the good mic again. Plus, we talk about the classic film The Blob, a horror film festival, the end of Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu!, and more!
21:30 – Media Minutes: The Blob, Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu!, Saya no Uta, Pedro Almodovar marathon cont., Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
51:30 – Notable News: VNs getting delayed on Steam, Uzumaki anime announced, Telltale Games’ return, Cyberpunk 2077 character selection removes “male” and “female” markers
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta